Baby Ashton Davies escaped a flood and helped his dad propose - and he's only seven days old

Couple tell of their seven months of mayhem

LITTLE Ashton Davies has had an exciting start in life – even though he’s only seven days old.

At 11 weeks pregnant, his mum was forced to flee their St Asaph home through a window after flood water burst in.

As if that wasn’t dramatic enough, just minutes after his arrival into the world on July 2, the infant wore a sleepsuit embroidered with the words: “Mummy, will you marry Daddy?” with an engagement ring clipped on to it.

Ashton's first sleepsuit had a special question for his mummy, with an engagement ring clipped on to it

It was a long awaited moment of joy for the couple, who have faced months of upheaval in the aftermath of last November’s devastating deluge.

Now living in Prestatyn, Kyle and Marie cradled their new addition as they reflected on their last seven months of mayhem.

Kyle said: “We were so overjoyed when Marie found out that she was pregnant – she’d had some problems in the past and the news of the baby was the most precious gift.

“At the time of the floods, we were sharing a house with another couple in Mill Street but we were looking to move somewhere else in the city so we could get ready for the arrival of the baby.

“It had been raining non-stop but we didn’t think for one minute we’d be affected. We had a knock on the door around 2am on November 27 telling us the river was going to burst its banks but we just didn’t believe it.

“Shortly afterwards we were woken by our housemate telling us to move the cars. We tried to get as many of our belongings as we could upstairs but the water came so fast, leaving us trapped.”

Worried about Marie, whose pregnancy had been deemed high risk, Kyle called for help and firefighters with lifeboats rushed straight to the house: all four occupants escaped through a window. Soon after being evacuated to the nearby leisure centre, the couple had to move into Kyle’s mother’s very small home.

But as the baby’s arrival drew nearer, they had to uproot again to Prestatyn to prepare.

“Luckily Marie wasn’t further along in the pregnancy and we hadn’t started buying things for the baby,” said Kyle. “We’d like to return to St Asaph but since having our own space in Prestatyn, Marie and I got closer and I decided I wanted to propose.

“I was thinking of all kinds of ways I could do it when I came up with the idea to get Ashton to do it for me. I got a little sleepsuit embroidered with the words: ‘Mummy, will you marry Daddy?’ and clipped the ring on to him. I dressed him in it just after he was born and passed him to Marie, who was so emotional, as were the midwives.

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Liverpool-born Mark joined the Daily Post in January 2014 after seven years as editor of its Merseyside sister title the Liverpool Post. He started out as a weekly news reporter on Wirral Newspapers, and spent seven years at the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo. He was The Press Association's regional correspondent for North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire from 1983 to 1997, before returning to the ECHO as deputy news editor. He has won a number of journalism awards, including the UK Press Gazzette Regional Reporter of the Year award, and in 1993 wrote a book on the James Bulger murder.